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Horrid spectacle : violation in the theater of early modern England
- Title
- Horrid spectacle : violation in the theater of early modern England / Deborah G. Burks.
- Author
- Burks, Deborah G., 1963-
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 456 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Subject
- English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
- Sex crimes in literature
- Christianity and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Christianity and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
- Rape victims in literature
- Women in literature
- Rape in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Acts and monuments of violation -- Spectacles of violation: enacting the witness of word and woodcut -- "Find out this abuse": virgin-violators and sheep-biters in Measure for measure -- "Break ... all the bounds of manhood, noblesse and religion": George Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois -- pt. II. Ravishing the subject's masculinity -- "I'le want my will else": the rhetoric of rape and rights -- Arbella Stuart Seymour: "this unadvised young woman ... so wilfully bent" -- "This sight doth shake all that is man within me": sexual violation and the rhetoric of dissent in The cardinal -- pt. III. Renegotiating the rhetoric of abusive sexuality -- Margaret Cavendish and the regicidal historiographers: chastizing the royal will -- Boiling passions, bloody hearts, horrid spectacle: Dryden's conquest of England for the Stuarts -- "Willing rape is all the fashion": partisan politics and unruly sexuality in Aphra Behn's The city heiress.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-10173
- ISBN
- 0820703419 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2003019475
- OCLC
- 52979209
- Author
- Burks, Deborah G., 1963-
- Title
- Horrid spectacle : violation in the theater of early modern England / Deborah G. Burks.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2003.
- Series
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studiesMedieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-10173